r6095 - packages/trunk/boswars/debian

Sun Mar 16 01:05:01 UTC 2008

Author: kibi-guest
Date: 2008-03-16 01:05:01 +0000 (Sun, 16 Mar 2008)
New Revision: 6095

Modified:
   packages/trunk/boswars/debian/copyright
Log:
Finish licensing related work.

Modified: packages/trunk/boswars/debian/copyright
===================================================================

--- packages/trunk/boswars/debian/copyright	2008-03-16 00:29:26 UTC (rev 6094)
+++ packages/trunk/boswars/debian/copyright	2008-03-16 01:05:01 UTC (rev 6095)
@@ -383,8 +383,106 @@
 
 
 Files: engine/tolua/*
-TODO: Copyright:
-TODO: License:
+Copyright: © 2003 Waldemar Celes
+	   © 2003-2006 Ariel Manzur
+License:
+ | This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it.
+ | The software provided hereunder is on an "as is" basis, and
+ | the author has no obligation to provide maintenance, support, updates,
+ | enhancements, or modifications.
+X-License-Origin: doc/tolua-copyright.txt
+X-Comment: Since that wasn't free enough, upstream authors of tolua++
+ and tolua (on which tolua++ is based) have been asked to relicense
+ their work under a DFSG-free license, that is: the lua license (MIT).
+X-Tolua-Author-Relicense-Agreement:
+ | Subject: Re: License for tolua and tolua++
+ | From: Waldemar Celes <celes at inf.puc-rio.br>
+ | To: Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois at enst-bretagne.fr>
+ | Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:22:35 -0200
+ | X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915)
+ | Message-Id: <79FB2838-1722-40D7-A648-0D3E767933B4 at inf.puc-rio.br>
+ |
+ | Hi,
+ |
+ | You can count on this. I will update the tolua licence to use the MIT one.
+ |
+ | Thanks for pointing this out,
+ |
+ | -- Waldemar
+ |
+ | On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
+ |
+ | >Hi,
+ | >
+ | >while working on packaging boswars for Debian, I stumbled upon
+ | >tolua++, which is embedded in boswars. Unfortunately, although there's
+ | >already a tolua package in the archive, its license (identical to
+ | >tolua++'s) isn't compliant with the Debian Free Software
+ | >Guidelines[1]. The basic right to use the software isn't actually
+ | >granted, and you might now that by default, in copyright areas,
+ | >everything not granted is implicitely forbidden.
+ | >
+ | >1. http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
+ | >
+ | >
+ | >That's why I'd like to know whether you might consider relicensing
+ | >tolua(++) under the MIT license, which is quite similar in spirit, and
+ | >apparently widely used in the lua world, being the license of lua
+ | >itself[2]. That would solve the DFSG-compliance problem, and allow to
+ | >keep tolua, as well as to include boswars and its embedded copy of
+ | >tolua++.
+ | >
+ | >2. http://www.lua.org/license.html
+ | >
+ | >
+ | >Thank you in advance.
+ | >
+ | >Cheers,
+ | >
+ | >--
+ | >Cyril Brulebois
+X-Tolua++-Author-Relicense-Agreement:
+ | Subject: Re: License for tolua and tolua++
+ | From: Ariel Manzur <puntob at gmail.com>
+ | To: Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois at enst-bretagne.fr>
+ | Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:42:32 -0200
+ | Message-ID: <f08e060f0802061042y78806beev39548da75250347b at mail.gmail.com>
+ |
+ | On Feb 6, 2008 3:53 PM, Cyril Brulebois
+ | <cyril.brulebois at enst-bretagne.fr> wrote:
+ | > On 06/02/2008, Ariel Manzur wrote:
+ | > > As far as I can tell, the license allows you to redistribute the
+ | > > code changing the license, so you should be able to take the code
+ | > > and package it with whatever license you need. That's what I would
+ | > > be doing if I changed the tolua++ license in fact, since it's
+ | > > basically Waldemar's program.
+ | >
+ | > Here's Waldemar's answer:
+ | [...]
+ | >
+ | > Shall I take for granted that one can update the copyright notices of
+ | > tolua++ included in boswars to use the MIT license instead of the
+ | > current license?
+ |
+ | Yeah.. no problem. I'll also update the license on my svn.
+X-New-License:
+ | Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+ | copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+ | to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+ | the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+ | and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+ | Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+ |
+ | The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+ | all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ |
+ | THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+ | IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+ | FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+ | AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+ | LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+ | FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
+ | DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
 
 
@@ -406,10 +504,31 @@
 	   © 2005 Wojciech Zylinski <gulldarek at tlen.pl>
 	   © 2007 Olov Gustavsson <olov.gustavsson at bredband.net>
 License: GPL, GPL-2+
+ | This package is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ | the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+ | (at your option) any later version.
+ |
+ | This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ | GNU General Public License for more details.
+X-Comment: On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
+ Public License, version 2 can be found in “/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2”.
 
 
 
 Files: debian/*
 Copyright: © 2007-2008 Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois at enst-bretagne.fr>
 License: GPL-2+
-TODO: Blurb and pointer here.
+ | This package is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ | the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+ | (at your option) any later version.
+ |
+ | This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ | GNU General Public License for more details.
+X-Comment: On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
+ Public License, version 2 can be found in “/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2”.


